Angela
I am a Special Education teacher who blogs about my super-powered special needs family. My 3 year old has Prader-Willi Syndrome and my 5 year old has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Sensory Processing Disorder. The odds of these random genetic events occurring at the same time are astronomical. When you add our typically developing one year old baby boy to the mix, you have a very busy household!Our lives have too many appointments, too many school problems, and are generally too busy as we try to live life to the fullest.
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On being Smart
“You moron!” “You idiot!” School yard taunts fly. I’m not talking the R-word, just common words to denote a lack of intelligence. Idiot. Moron. Imbecile. Stupid. There are countless insults in the English language that refer to someone’s lack of … Continue reading
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Tagged disability, Down Syndrome, intellectual disability, intelligence, R-word
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Special Needs Parenting: What I wish I would have known
Recently a new reader stumbled across my blog in search of answers to Prader-Willi questions. You can imagine the kind of questions parents new to a diagnosis would ask. I really can’t answer any of them – the best answer … Continue reading
But, for that extra chromosome he would…
I’m a special education teacher. The students I work with have DD (Developmental Disabilities). This means they have what used called mental retardation. I prefer the term intellectual disability. Either way my students have a difficult time reasoning abstractly and … Continue reading
